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Photos for June 28, 2009
A flock of geese fly past a smokestack in this Jan. 10 file photo at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. Sweeping legislation to curb the pollution linked to global warming and create a new energy-efficient economy is headed to an uncertain future in the Senate after squeaking through the House.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony of judiciary Saturday in Tehran, Iran, in this image issued by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency.
Michael Jackson, wearing pajama pants, is helped as he walks to the courthouse March 10, 2005, in Santa Maria, Calif., after arriving late. Jackson said his attire and tardiness was the result of a morning stay at a local hospital for back pain.
A Michael Jackson fan holds a picture of him during a daytime vigil Saturday in Mexico City. Jackson died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 50.
An inmate at the island province of Cebu in central Philippines impersonates the late Michael Jackson as he leads in the music icon’s “Thriller” to pay tribute to Jackson on Saturday. More than 1,500 inmates became famous in YouTube with more than 23 million hits after they performed Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
Jake Lahm, left, and grandfather Bill Webster, right, celebrate after Webster shot this turkey in Osage County recently. It weighed 21 lbs, with a 10-inch beard. David Lahm, Lawrence, submitted the picture. Got a shot for Friends & Neighbors? Send it, along with your name, phone number, residence, and children’s ages, to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence 66044, or go online at LJWorld.com.
Sgt. 1st Class Aljournal “A.J.” Franklin, pictured in Fort Leavenworth, is a noncommissioned officer who administers the military post’s mental health facility. He provides counseling to five men awaiting execution and about 425 other inmates with life or long-term sentences.
A demonstrator, with her face painted, attends a demonstration against regulatory official investigations that could force the station Globovision, an opposition-aligned television channel, off the air Saturday in Caracas.
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines pass through a poppy field during operations against the Taliban on June 20 near Now Zad in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The U.S. announced a new drug policy Saturday for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication efforts and using the money for drug interdiction and alternate crop programs instead.
When Michael Connelly decided to set his 20th crime novel, “The Scarecrow,” amid the wreckage of the American newspaper industry, he didn’t know how much grief he was letting himself in for: He had to yank his thriller back from his publisher not once but twice as his death-of-newspapers angle was overtaken by events.
This jasperware-covered dish is 12 1/2 inches in diameter. The fern and cattail decoration was used on similar dishes made by Dudson Pottery, makers of pottery in England since about 1900. The dish sold for $153 at Jackson’s Auctioneers of Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Hannah Lodwick, a graduate of Free State High School, has been named the 2008-2009 ArtStar.
Chancellor Roberty Hemenway and his wife his wife, Leah, January 8, 1995, visit with members of media at the Adams Alumni Center.
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